Accepting Flaws Quotes

Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

Let's get back to loving our bodies and accepting them totally as they are.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

I think it's important that things are flawed.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There's something about a guy who admits he's a jerk that makes him forgiveable.

I have mistakes and I have flaws, but I'm going to grow and get better from it.

I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.